Nicknames for your home town

[Archae]

I live in Sheboygan, WI, and we call it at times Sheerboredom.

How about your town?

[flamingyouth]

1. Officially, Seattle is the Emerald City

Informally, the Jet City.

When I was a kid, it was the Queen City.

[Ediacara]

4. I like the Jet City WAY more than the Emerald City

I think because the Emerald City was chosen in a contest...

[flamingyouth]

11. It was chosen in a contest - I think KIRO sponsored it

I remember when it was chosen. Even as a kid I thought it was stupid. Jet City suits us way better.

[Mara Steele]

10. My dad always called it "Skedaddle" when i was little;

So it rubbed off, and now I say the same thing!

:hi:

[flamingyouth]

17. That's funny

I always called Tacoma "Stinkoma" as a kid because, well, you know...

[Mara Steele]

21. I'm going to Skedaddle to Skedaddle in another year!!

It will be fun, I hope!!

:toast:

[flamingyouth]

23. Oh, it shall be most fun!

Where are you going to live? I know you're going to the UW...

[Mara Steele]

24. I don't know where, yet!!

Somewhere close to the U. Have any suggestions?

:hi:

[flamingyouth]

25. University District/University Heights

Loud, but you can get a cheap enough room.

Personally, I'd go a little farther north, to Ravenna or Maple Leaf. Or down my way, to Montlake or Capitol Hill.

[Mara Steele]

28. Actually, am looking for an apartment/loft/studio

Do need my own space!

:hi:

Will probably be in U-district or Wallingford...

[Mara Steele]

30. I'm having a hey-day with the "hi" smiley!!

I don't know why, I just want to keep using it today!!

:hi: :hi: :hi:

Hi, Lisa!! :hi: :hi:

:hi:

:D

[flamingyouth]

31. Wallingford is great - lots of cool apts. there

I have friends who lived on 46th and Burke for years in a great old building with wood floors.:hi:

I (heart) the :hi: smiley too! :hi: Hi Mara! :hi:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

33. Wichita (I spent most of my time there, not in El Dorado, my birthplace)

River City, Air Capital of the World (but it doesn't have an international airport), Peerless Princess of the Plains (gag).

[flamingyouth]

35. But Boeing does have a plant there

I'm surprised they don't have an int'l airport? :shrug:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

40. Someone once told me an airport has to be near an international border

In order to be international. I think this was a friend with a pilot's license who at the time lived in Lubbock, Texas, which I guess would qualify (even Lubbock has an international airport!). Oh, well. We just build 'em; we don't necessarily fly 'em!

[Ediacara]

2. Bozeman Montana

===> Bozo

[LoisMustDie]

3. Choctaw Oklahoma

The teen pregnancy capital of the US 1993-1994.

[iconoclastic cat]

5. My fav: Hog Butcher to the World

And there's also "'Cago."

[Southsideirish]

13. How about my favorite, "Chi-town"?

[flamingyouth]

14. There's a great compilation record called that

I think WNUR from Northwestern put it out. It has Big Black on it and lots of other great Chicago bands.:hi:

[iconoclastic cat]

38. I don't have that one!

Ah, yes--Big Black. Good stuff.

[flamingyouth]

39. It's a great comp

Yeah, bands like Big Black and Scratch Acid were *hugely* influential on Seattle bands. It was always a big event when they came to town, that's for sure! Ah, memories!

[starroute]

6. My town doesn't have a nickname

:-(

However, it was built on The Great Swamp, and you occasionally see it marked that way on old maps.

[Mara Steele]

7. Bellingham, sometimes called BoringHam!!

Ha!! Not with ME around, it's not!!

:D

[flamingyouth]

12. Bellingham is hardly boring!

I know that I've had lots of fun times up there, but I don't remember them all that clearly.:silly:

[Mara Steele]

18. ha !!

Yep, there are plenty of places to drink in Bellingham, and it all is fun when you're drunk!!

:toast: :hi:

[flamingyouth]

20. There was some great fungus involved as well, IIRC

:crazy:

[Mara Steele]

26. Fungus!!

I get some on my feet, occasionally. You think I could harvest it, and sell it downtown?

:D

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. Armpit of the Nation

also called Chambanapaign (for Champaign-Urbana IL)

[Xipe Totec]

45. Nah, That's Houston

Hot, humid and smelly.

[Not Me]

9. Orlando calls itself "The City Beautiful"

and there are some really pretty places in town...quaint cobblestone streets lines with old oak trees (well at least before Hurrican Charley.)

BUT, just about every city has its signature neighborhoods, so I don't get why they make this claim.

[ZenLefty]

15. Jobless Armpit of the World.

Yup.

[noahmijo]

16. "Too-Stoned" (Tucson)

[HEyHEY]

19. Port Moody "Pomo"

CIty of the arts or "Home of that jeremy guy with the big..." never mind

[Beware the Beast Man]

22. Easy: The Mistake on the Lake

nt

[sasquatch]

27. Railroadtown(lame nickname for my town but better one's for neighbors)

Dayton, Ohio "Malfunction Junction"
Cincinnati, Ohio "Queen City" I call it "The Midwestern Capitol of Fascism."
Cleveland, Ohio "Mistake by the Lake"

[Philostopher]

42. And though I've heard other cities use the nickname ...

Dayton is, supposedly, 'Gem City.'

Back during the Mapplethorpe ruckus, my favorite nickname for Cincinnati was born: Censornati or Censornazi. I still think of it as Censornati, sometimes.

[rene moon]

29. The Old Pueblo

The official nickname of Tucson, AZ!

[wryter2000]

32. Oaktown

Oakland, CA. aka Bump City

[ChoralScholar]

34. Russellville, AR - "RoosterPoot"

I am not f-ing kidding.

[maveric]

36. Lawrence MA = "Lawry"

[Endangered Specie]

37. Our beltline is known as the Raleigh Speedway or the Raleigh Autobahnd

[Habibi]

41. "Smugtown"

aka Rochester, NY. Also known as Rah-cha-cha, and Rottenchester.

[doubleplusgood]

43. Portland (OR): "Stumptown"

...also "Bridgetown"

[Bossy Monkey]

44. None will stick; I think we should try "Little Stinky"

(Cola, SC. Of course, THAT's a nickname.)

[baldguy]

46. Buffalo: Queen City of the Great Lakes

or the City of Good Neighbors

others: Nickle City (as on an Indian-head nickle)
City of No Illusions
Spaceport of the Future (both from a local artist)
The Buff
Bison City (obvious)

We let Cleveland take over "The Mistake By The Lake"

[Connie_Corleone]

47. Cincinnapathy

For Cincinnati.

[Magrittes Pipe]

50. I prefer "Cincinnasty."

Or you could just go old-school and use "Porkopolis" when referring to the Queen City.

[Magrittes Pipe]

48. City of Roses.

No, not Portland.

[tXr]

49. Stinkadena... (Pasadena TX)...

as soon as you step outside, your eyes start burning because of all the crap in the air...hell, your eyes burn when you're inside your house! Asthma is pandemic here. :-(

[NMDemDist2]

51. Zomby calls where I live "Hell"

but that's just his opinion :evilgrin:

aka "the Valley of the Sun"

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

52. The Gem City.

Dayton, Ohio...

...."becuase its such a gem"?

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

53. "The City of the Seventies"

i...that was a slogan or nickname the Chamber of Commerce was pushing for Louisville in the early 1970s.

n the 19th century it was "The Falls City"

Then, during the "New South" era, it was "Gateway to the South"


Then it was "World Class City" in the 1980s.

Most people probably just call it "Derbytown" or Derby City, after the Kentucly Derby.

[Shananigans]

54. The town I went to college in was called Bemidji.

It is one of the coldest places in the United States so we used to joke around and call it Brrrrmidji.

Minneapolis, where I currently reside, used to be known as Murderapolis back in the day.